| Eileen Patricia Flynn - Medical - 1990 - 116 pages
...control over their bodies. In support of this stance the court quoted Judge Cooley's famous dictum: "The right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity: to be let alone."10 The court noted that surgery which is performed without consent is considered an act of assault... | |
| Robert Ellis Smith - Law - 1993 - 70 pages
...Warren, as articulated in 1888 by Judge Thomas M. Cooley in his treatise on torts, Cooley on Torts.12 "The right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity; to be let alone," Cooley wrote. Both Brandeis and Warren and the Court in 1891 quoted this passage. The Supreme Court... | |
| R. B. Pearson - Health & Fitness - 1993 - 168 pages
...others unless by clear and unquestionable authority of law." As well said by Judge Cooley: "The right of one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity; to be let alone." (Cooley on Torts, 29.) "The inviolability of the person is as much invaded by a compulsory stripping... | |
| R. B. Pearson - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 156 pages
...others unless by clear and unquestioned authority of law. As well said by Judge Cooley: "The right of one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity; to be let alone." (Cooley on Torts 29.) "The inviolability of the person is as much invaded by a compulsory stripping... | |
| Judith Wagner DeCew - Law - 1997 - 228 pages
...Human Beings," 169195, for descriptions of the variability of privacy protection in other societies. 10 "The right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity: to be let alone" (Thomas C. Cooley, Law of Torts, 29 [ad ed., 1888]). Contrary to Parent's claim that Warren and Brandéis... | |
| Peter A. Coclanis, Stuart Weems Bruchey - History - 1999 - 260 pages
...However, the strong, straightforward, and single-minded articulation of the right to bodily integrity, "'the right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity: to be let alone/" as expressed by a justice of the Supreme Court more than a hundred years ago, applies almost entirely... | |
| Charles J. Sykes - Political Science - 1999 - 289 pages
...to be let alone." That honor goes to Judge Thomas M. Cooley, whose treatise on torts insisted that "the right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity to be let alone. . . .'>25 Although the constitutional right to privacy grew out of outrage against tyrannical overreaching... | |
| Anil Jain, Ruud Bolle, Sharath Pankanti - Computers - 1999 - 434 pages
...hls treatise on torts, included "the right to be let alone" as a class of ton rights, contending that "the right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity." Echoing and popularizutg Cooley's phrase. Warren and Brandeis, in their classic article written over... | |
| Laurinda B. Harman - Medical - 2001 - 422 pages
...privacy rights was Judge Thomas Cooley's ( 1 888) Treatise on the Law of Torts, which suggested that the "right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity: to be let alone" (p. 29). In contrast to privacy, which historically has been used to refer to protection against unwanted... | |
| Steven Wise - Science - 2000 - 386 pages
...interference of others, unless by clear and unquestionable authority of law. As well said by Judge Cooley, "The right to one's person may be said to be a right of complete immunity: to be let alone."49 Immunities insulate a person from the scholars' struggle over mental capacity that may plague... | |
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